What are Pentium Gold and Silver?
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·Techquickie
·2018-05-06
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long time Techquickie viewer you know that we've had reservations about CPU
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naming schemes for a long time Intel named a CPU lineup core 2
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even though some of those chips had four cores
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then they gave us core 3 core i5 and
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processors in any of those lines with an
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odd number of cores and then this scheme was subsequently copied by AMD for its
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new ryzen series and between you and me i've always
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thought that celeron sounds more like a villain from a bee
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movie about eating vegetables
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now Intel is throwing precious metals into the mix now to be fair they are
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actually used in processor manufacturing but that doesn't help us understand what
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exactly it is we're buying so let's demystify the recently released pentium
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gold and pentium silver chips from Intel
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for starters pentium gold doesn't mean
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that Intel has souped up a lower tier chip to be one of the most powerful
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products ever i mean think about how easy it is to get
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a gold credit card these days pentium gold is basically a rebranding strategy
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for their standard desktop grade pentium cpus starting with the kaby lake
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generation and since these gold chips are just
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rebranded the good news is that you won't need any kind of special new
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socket or motherboard to use them one cool thing is that pentium gold cpus
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do feature hyper threading making them more like what core i3s were not too
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long ago where things start to get a little less
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clear is when we get into the pentium silver lineup the name suggests that
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it's kind of like a less nice version of gold but it's actually a really
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different product silver chips aren't available in boxes from your favorite
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online stores rather they are lower power chips primarily designed for the
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mobile segment where battery life is far more important than peak performance and
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although some pentium silvers will be desktop variants with slightly higher
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tdps they all use bga sockets meaning
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that they get soldered onto the motherboard rather than being removable
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by the user they also use very different micro architectures while pentium gold will
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continue to use normal desktop architectures like kaby
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lake silver cpus are built around low power
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designs similar to what you'd see in Intel atom processors in compact and
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mobile gadgets however one thing that is interesting
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about pentium silver is that it will support hevc and vp9 video at 4k these
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are compression standards that can deliver high quality video with less
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data and with netflix using vp9 a pentium silver could be helpful if
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you're fighting battery life or bandwidth limits on mobile
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if you aren't silver also supports 160
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megahertz wide wi-fi channels and while channels this wide can actually
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sometimes cause or be susceptible to interference they can enable faster
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speeds if your router is up to scratch though this is also true of the slightly
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lower end celeron chips that are essentially the same but have lower
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clock speeds or fewer cores so yeah i mean the features are kind of
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cool but i'm not sure that Intel really clarified anything for us consumers by
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naming their wares after metals especially considering they recently did
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the same thing with the server grade xeon chips and that just ended up
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confusing everyone too hopefully though this clears things up
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enough for now and Intel won't decide to throw iridium
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titanium and plutonium into the mix anytime soon which
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yeah i should just probably stop giving them ideas
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